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Hybrid Cloud Benefits & Advantages

More and more businesses are turning to a hybrid cloud model that mixes and matches dedicated hardware, private cloud platforms and public cloud services to meet their unique requirements. A study by Rackspace, in conjunction with The London School of Economics and Political Science, found that 60 percent of businesses have moved or are considering moving to a hybrid cloud platform.

Here are some of the benefits that make hybrid solutions so compelling to so many businesses:

Why Choose Rackspace

Fit-for-purpose

While the efficiency and flexibility of public cloud services are ideal for certain use cases, many businesses have security, compliance, or legacy technology requirements that prevent them from hosting workloads in an off-site, multi-tenant environment. However, with hybrid cloud, companies can store their most sensitive data in on dedicated hardware while simultaneously benefitting from the public cloud’s cost efficiency and on-demand scalability for those workloads that don’t require the same degree of control.

Cost Benefits

According to our research, a hybrid cloud model mixing dedicated or on-premises resources with cloud services can yield an average reduction in overall IT costs of around 17 percent. Hybrid cloud allows businesses to reduce Total Cost of Ownership, more closely match their cost patterns to their revenue/demand patterns and, in the process, transition from a capital-intensive cost model to an OpEx-based model.

Improved Security Capabilities

By combining dedicated and cloud resources, businesses can address many common security and compliance concerns. For example, strict PCI compliance requirements necessitate running payment applications on isolated dedicated hardware. With hybrid cloud, businesses can place sensitive customer data on a dedicated server while running their front-end applications in the public cloud. This allows them to conduct business and transact payments online all within one seamless, agile and secure environment.

Driving innovation and future-proofing IT

Hybrid cloud is the perfect stepping stone to help businesses more quickly take advantage of emerging cloud technologies. It enables businesses to gradually move cloud-ready workloads into the public cloud while retaining other applications within the corporate data centers. This means the organization will begin to see the benefits of cloud services far sooner, rather than waiting until every legacy component is ready to make the shift into the cloud.

How Rackspace Can Help With Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid cloud solutions offer a flexible, best-fit option to meet even the most particular requirements. But they’re also highly complex to design, implement, operate, secure and optimize.

That's why we’ve developed a portfolio of hybrid cloud capabilities to connect dedicated bare metal environments to the private and public clouds of your choice. We’ll help design and deliver a hybrid architecture using RackConnect® to connect your AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform or Alibaba Cloud to traditional dedicated servers. Or rely on our proven expertise and support to get the most out of Microsoft® Azure® Stack, the world’s first truly interoperable hybrid cloud.